How to replace HTML code to respective character while parsing using Javascript in React-Native

Question

It's a React-Native application, so I can not go for DOM

I have a HTML as a string let's say,

let str = "<p>Research not to discover what&#8217;s already there, but to discover what&#8217;s not.</p>\n",

I am able to parse it using Regex

str.replace(/<\/?[^>]+(>|$)/g, "")

But the output of this is,

"Research not to discover what&#8217;s already there, but to discover what&#8217;s not.
"

which is still have HTML code in it what’s How I can I replace it with what's

Where does this html comes from? Do you have control over it? Can you parse it as JSON? — Or Duan, Jul 25 '18 at 15:12
@OrDuan I don't have control over it, It's one public rest API — Praveen Rana, Jul 25 '18 at 18:05

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 25 '18 at 15:15

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You could use something like This answer suggests, but this answer only works for numeric entities, not for things sur as &

I guess it depends on how you know what kind of html you might be getting. Otherwise you will have to use a library to decode those HTML entities.

answered Jul 25 '18 at 15:15

Tony

Thanks for the response, but It's not working for numeric entities also, any other approach you want to suggest? – Praveen Rana Jul 25 '18 at 18:11
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The linked answer almost works, you just need to change the regex from `/([0-9]{1,3});/gi` to `/([0-9]{1,4});/gi` because hmtl entities can have 4 characters. That being said, since this is a public API and not your own data, I would recommend you to rather use a library for the reasons cleary explained [here](https://stackoverflow.com/a/23831239/4711321) – Tony Jul 25 '18 at 19:58
Yes, I found the solution using the name link, Thankyou @Tony – Praveen Rana Jul 26 '18 at 07:06

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